April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
7h 4m
English
Content preview from Ethereum For Dummies
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Chapter 14
Ten Design Principles for Distributed Blockchain Apps
IN THIS CHAPTER
Keeping users happy
Making your dApp effective and efficient
Focusing on trust
Providing the right amount of help
Blockchain technology is a disruptive, transformative approach to the way we manage data. It promises to radically change how we carry out tasks that handle sensitive information in shared environments. Critical operations on sensitive data historically required a strong central authority to convince data owners to trust the environment enough to allow it to manage their data.
One of the more difficult obstacles that every blockchain dApp must overcome is building trust. Users have to trust that the software running on the blockchain includes solid measures to provide security and protect privacy before they’ll supply sensitive personal and business data. You can go a long way toward building this trust by adhering to several basic design guidelines. If you follow the ten design goals for blockchain applications presented in this chapter, you’ll help encourage your users to trust your application ...